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...Claim Jumper. Wilson was no run-of-the-desert prospector. He was something of a legendary figure, 6 ft. 3 in., 240 Ibs., loud-voiced, belligerent and shrewd. His past included periods as a salesman of insurance, stocks and bonds, and for a time he was a manufacturer, in Salt Lake City, of water heaters. He had hundreds of patents in his name...
...Practical Joker. Before they met, the town was jolted when a stranger appeared at the Kane County recorder's office. In one hand was a chunk of ore, in the other a Geiger counter. The rock seemed to be super-rich with uranium. One prospector who saw it said: "It made that there jagger counter go nuts!" The stranger excitedly told the recorder where he had found the rock, in a seldom-visited foothill area west of town, the opposite direction from the February strike. He filed his claim for the usual 20 acres...
ATLAS CORP. is adding uranium to its interests. President Floyd B. Odium has bought a large group of mining claims owned by Prospector Charles A. Steen (TIME, Aug. 3) on the rich Colorado Plateau near Moab, Utah. The claims will be worked by the Lisbon Uranium Mining Corp., 60% of which has just been bought by three Odium subsidiaries in a stock and cash deal...
...building to form Whitney Investment Co., and expects to gross $50,000 this year as a broker in penny stocks. Stockseller Coombs also started his own brokerage firm. Others got into the act, formed their own companies and began peddling stock. The boom will come of age when & if Prospector Steen and ex-Automan Joseph Frazer, who have formed Standard Uranium, get their stocks listed on the American Stock Exchange, as scheduled...
...Like most people in Arizona of the '80s, he dreamed of striking it rich. His son Tommy heard him say that he would "rather not live at all than live a failure." But he never really expected to fail, and his dream came real when a crusty old prospector partner led him to one of the richest copper strikes in Arizona. With the Blue Chip mine making him richer every day, Packer began talking to his wife about New York dressmakers and Tiffany jewels. What he could not foresee, as he watched the town of Jericho mushroom...